The City of Sonoma has announced that the Upper Sonoma Overlook Trail has reopened on schedule following a planned closure for repairs and trail improvements. The work, completed over five hitches by crews from the American Conservation Experience (ACE) in partnership with the Sonoma Overlook Trail Stewards, focused on... Continue
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By Tarney Baldinger On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant in northern Ukraine melted down and exploded. It remains the largest nuclear disaster in history, releasing more than ten times as much radiation as Fukushima and the contaminated zone is far... Continue
Norma Barnett, wife of Larry Barnett, mother of Zoe Barnett and Deirdre Campbell, Grandmother of Isabelle Sinha, Warren and Mira Woerner, sister of Helen and brother Bill Marsh and Aunt to their children Jamie, Bessie and Katie, died suddenly on Thursday, May 22, 2025, just... Continue
Zombies? Sometimes you just gotta ask. Drama? Or Documentary? Do the Dead really come back to Life? (Not talking about you, Jesus). Living Dead. What a concept. Living humans with consciousness but no souls? Dead humans imbued with scientific training and a hunger for human flesh?... Continue
The Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund hosted the annual Sonoma Valley Star Volunteer Awards at the Vintage House on Saturday May 3, where 43 nonprofit organizations honored 44 of Sonoma Valley’s most active and dedicated community volunteers during the ceremony. The public event was attended by... Continue
Poppy open in Glen Ellen After months of remodeling, repainting, restyling and recreating their finest memories of France and its food, Sondra Bernstein and John Toulze hosted four “friends and family” practice dinners last week. Their actual opening date of Poppy was Wednesday, May 21.... Continue
Look, I rode a donkey up the cliffs of Crete, waterskied down the Colorado River, and hiked the Cinque Terra. I trekked through the Mayan jungle and climbed Tikal. I hiked the pine forest above Rio Caliente, scaled Nevada Falls, and climbed rickety ladders to... Continue
California is modernizing its behavioral health delivery system to improve accountability, increase transparency and expand the capacity of behavioral health care facilities for Californians. To this end, the Behavioral Health division of the Sonoma County Department of Health Services has been awarded $67.7 million through... Continue
Democracy’s an idea that’s been kicking around for thousands of years, an attempt to bring a particular form of order to a chaotic world. Criticism of democracy goes all the way back to Plato’s Republic in Ancient Greece of 380 B.C., his thoughts on how... Continue
The 5th annual Women’s Health Symposium, sponsored by the Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation, was held on Tuesday, May 6th at Hanna Center. The topic of this year’s symposium was stress. The panel included Dr. Dena Dubal, Professor of Neurology at UCSF’s Weill Institute for Neurosciences... Continue